The Indian culture of our times is in the making. Many of us are striving to produce a blend of all cultures that seem today to be in clash with one another. No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. There is no such thing as pure Aryan culture in existence in India today. Whether the Aryans were indigenous to India or were unwelcome intruders, does not interest me much. What does interest me is the fact that my remote ancestors blended with one another with the utmost freedom and we of the present generation are a result of that blend.

I don not want my house to be walled in, on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all land to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. I would have any young men and women with literary tastes to learn as much of English and other world-languages as they like, and then expect them to give the benefits of their learning to India and the world alike like a Bose, A Ray or Tagore. But I would not have a single Indian forger, neglect or be ashamed of his mother tongue, or feel that he or she cannot think or express the best thoughts in his or her own vernacular. Mine is not a religion of the prison house.

358. The author views Indian Culture as

(a) pure Aryan culture

(b) a clash of cultures

(c) a continual blend of cultures

(d) the culture of remote ancestors

359. The author thinks that

(a) the aryans were indigenous to India

(b) the Aryans were unwelcome intruders

(c) the question whether the Aryans were indigenous or not is not of interests

(d) the culture that we have inherited is the Aryan culture

360. The author wants

(a) The cultures of others to be kept out

(b) The cultures of others to replace our old culture

(c) The freedom to blend other cultures with our own

(d) the preservation of the culture of our ancestors

361. The author wants Indians to

(a) learn only English, as much as they like

(b) learn English and other world languages

(c) learn only the mother tongue or the vernacular

(d) learn english and other world languages in addition to the mother tongue